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BARA, THEDA. Two items: Photograph Signed and Inscribed * Autograph Letter Signed, "Theo Goodman." The photograph, "À Marcel / Avec mes Souhaites les plus / de sincères," bust portrait showing her wearing a pearl necklace and looking into the camera. Inscribed in the image at lower right. Additionally signed by the photographer at lower left, ("Maxwell[?]"), in pencil. 9 1/2x7 3/4 inches; mounted to a larger board. The letter, to "Dear Twin-Sister" or "dear Gertie" [a friend, presumably with the same birthday], sharing a "grim satisfaction" at turning twenty, and congratulating her on her engagement. Additionally signed, "Theodosia Goodman," in the third person within the text. 3 pages, 8vo, folded sheet, end of letter written vertically across pages 2 and 3; horizontal fold with minor loss to text, faint soiling to terminal page. Np, 1933; Rochester, [July 28 1905]
"You see I have not forgotten the compact made in the stall of old W.C. several months ago though you perhaps have forgotten the very existence of me, Theodosia Goodman. . . . "Tomorrow we both take the leap out of our 'teens' together. 'Misery doth love company,' & it certainly is a sort of grim satisfaction to feel that somebody is growing old with you. Accept my heartiest congratulations dear Gertie . . . . "If you really are engaged Gertie, . . . there is really nothing left for me to wish you on your natal day, for you surely have all the happiness that is allotted to one person. I can add though that I wish you a continuation of this happiness through your sister's life's course. ". . . I would like you to give me one little thought tomorrow when I should so love to be in my own house with all my friends." For a short period beginning in 1905, Bara lived at 168 Harvard Street in Rochester, NY.
